UA9 status report for 2011

1. UA9 status report for 2011 W. Scandale for the UA9 Collaboration CERN – IHEP - Imperial College – INFN – JINR – LAL - PNPI – SLAC SPSC, October 25, 2011

2. UA9 hardware in 2011 Collimation region High dispersion area

3. UA9 basic layout ~ 67m / Δμ=90° ~45m / Δμ=60° ~ 45m / Δμ=60° crystal4 crystal3 1m Cu, LHC-type collimator not used in 2011 10 cm Al scraper 60 cm W absorber Medipix in a two sided Roman pot Medipix in a two sided Roman pot Collimation region High dispersion area • Observables in the collimation area: • Intensity, profile and angle of the deflected beam • Local rate of inelastic interactions • Channeling efficiency (with multi-turn effect) • Observables in the high-D area: • Off-momentum halo population escaping from collimation (with multi-turn effect) • Off-momentum beam tails

4. Crystals • Quasimosaic crystal 1.9 mm long • Bent along (111) planes • Non-equidistant planes d1/d2 = 3 • Strip crystal 2mm long • Bent along (110) planes • Equidistant planes Crystal 3 Crystal 4 • Residual imperfections: • Residual torsion ≈ 1 μrad/mm • Amorphous layer size ≤ 1 μm • Miscut ≈ 100 μrad  different paths for different vertical hit points  different paths at small impact parameter • Torsion is no longer an issue • torsion over the beam size < critical angle • full mitigation of the detrimental effects Schematic view of the residual miscut angle

5. Goniometer • The critical angle governs the acceptance for crystal channeling • 120 GeVθc = 20 μrad • 270 GeVθc = 13.3 μrad Transfer function residual inaccuracy |δϑ| ≤ 10 μrad Non-linear part of the transfer function in a full angular scan the drive position changes by 300 µm around the initial value in the plotted range

6. Channeling efficiency bycoll. scans ~ 67m / Δμ=90° ~45m / Δμ=60° ~ 45m / Δμ=60° absorber collimator Crystal 3 Pb-ion beam at 120 GeV BLMs Proton beam at 120 GeV Efficiency 70-85% Ncoll/Ncry [-] Efficiency 50-74% channeling kick Equivalent crystal kick[μrad]

7. Loss rate reduction at the crystal ~ 67m / Δμ=90° • Loss rate reduction factor • for protons 5÷8 • for lead ions ≈ 3 • σtot(lead ions)=σh+σed=5.5 b≅10×σtot(p) absorber Nuclear spray Loss rate counters protons Lead ions simulation simulation data ×5÷8 reduction ×3 reduction data

8. Loss rate reduction at the crystal ~ 67m / Δμ=90° • Discrepancy between data and simulation: • crystal surface imperfections • miscut angle absorber Nuclear spray Loss rate counters protons Lead ions First hit Second hit simulation simulation data ×5÷8 reduction ×3 reduction Miscut angle data

9. off-momentum halo population ~ 67m / Δμ=90° ~45m / Δμ=60° Off-momentum halo deflected in the dispersive area of the TAL2 Absorber Nuclear spray • P, Pb: diffractive scattering and ionization loss Scraper (TAL2) Medipix in a two sided Roman pot BLMs Off-momentum halo population Linear scan made by the TAL2 (or Medipix) with the crystal in fixed orientation angular scan of the crystal with the TAL2 (or the Roman pot) in fixed position in the shadow of the absorber

10. off-momentum halo: linear scans proton beams Crystal 4 • Crystal at 4.9 σ • TAL at 7.7 σ scans with the Roman pot of the internal side (momentum loss side) Medipix counts [a.u.] Reduction factor Medipix position [σ] Medipix position [σ]

11. off-momentum halo: beam tails preliminary Loss rate as a function of the medipix position at the high-dispersion location proton beams Crystal 3 • Crystal at 5.4 σ • TAL at 7.2 σ TAL absorber Crystal • More populated tails on the internal side than on the external side • Particles that have lost momentum are continuously produced by the interactions with the crystal and the absorber edges Beam tails

12. off-momentum halo: linear scan preliminary Crystal 4 Pb-ion beams 1 σ ≈ 1.2 mm decreasing distance from the beam centre Reduction factor

13. off-momentum halo: angular scans Crystal 4 close to the crystal proton beams Loss rate as a function of the crystal orientation × 10 • Crystal at 5.6 σ • TAL at 7.6 σ • TAL2 at 9.3σ in the dispersive area • reduction factor in the dispersive area • Decreases due to off-momentum particles produced in the absorber • Increases when the TAL2 is more and more retracted × 5

14. off-momentum halo: angular scans proton beams preliminary Crystal 4 • Crystal at 5.6 σ • TAL at 7.6 σ • TAL2 at 9.3σ Loss rate along the SPS Sextant 5 amorphous channeling

15. Perspective for 2012 • The extension of UA9 to LHC is seen favorably by LHCC and by the accelerator directorate (to be announced soon) • time allocation in LHC to be shared in between the machine and the experiments (however very limited) • dedicated run time to avoid conflicts with the high-luminosity operation. • UA9 in the North Area and in the SPS • The main goal will be to validate scenarios, detectors and hardware for LHC • Upgrade of the SPS experimental setup required • crystal collimation scheme for the high-intensity SPS operation. • Preliminary investigations based on UA9 experimental setup • Later an ad-hoc setup is required. • The collimation is requested at high-energy in pulsed mode • Very demanding constraints on crystal acceptance and on goniometer stability UA9 request to the SPSC • 5 days in the SPS (4 with protons and 1 with Pb-ions) • 5 weeks in H8 (3 with protons and 2 with Pb-ions)

16. New hardware and priorities for 2012 • SPS – 5 full days • High intensity, high flux operation for loss maps along the SPS • Operation with Pb-ions • Hardware test for LHC (crystals and goniometer) • Collimation efficiency of multi-strip crystals • H8 – 5 weeks • Test of new crystals for LHC • Test of instrumentation for LHC • Deflection efficiency withPb-ions • x-ray spectraPXRas a tool to detect the crystal integrity

17. Publications 1. W. Scandale et al., Physics Letters B 692 (2010) 78–82, “First Results on the SPS Collimation with Bent Crystals” 2. W. Scandale et al., Physics Letters B 693 (2010) 545–550, “Deflection of high-energy negative particles in a bent crystal through axial channeling and multiple volume reflection stimulated by doughnut scattering”. 3.W.Scandale et al. Probability of Inelastic Nuclear Interactions of High-Energy Protons in a Bent Crystal. Nucl. Instr. Meth. B, 268 (2010) 2655. 4.W.Scandale et al. Multiple volume reflections of high-energy protons in a sequence of bent silicon crystals assisted by volume capture. Phys. Letters B, 688 (2010) 284. 5.W.Scandale et al., Observation of Multiple Volume Reflection by Different Planes in One Silicon Crystal for High-Energy Negative Particles. EPL 93 (2011) 56002. 6. W. Scandale et al, JINST, 1748-0221_6_10_T10002, Geneva (2011), “The UA9 experimental layout”. 7. W, Scandale et al., Physics Letters B 701 (2011) 180–185, “Observation of parametric X-rays produced by 400 GeV/c protons in bent crystals”. 8. W. Scandale et al., Physics Letters B 703 (2011) 547–551, “Comparative results on collimation of the SPS beam of protons and Pb ions with bent crystals”. 9. W. Scandale et al., “Status of UA9, the Crystal Collimation Experiment in the SPS”, Invited talk at the IPAC11, San Sebastian, Spain, September 2011. acknowledgments • The EN/STI group was of an extraordinary support to UA9 • BE/OP-BI-RF groups carefully prepared the SPS for our needs • Special thanks to our funding agencies, reference Committees and Referees